---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act Relative to the Centerville-Osterville Marstons Mills Fire District"
description: "An Act Relative to the Centerville-Osterville Marstons Mills Fire District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3997"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3997 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Revenue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-01"
last_action: "2017-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cc3ce96-12c1-4718-bbfe-29645fae1ae1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3997"
source_hash: "e800c665672eb8b10bcded72c39c962cd65399cd5968b1b15c651327e098b487"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 3997 (190th) — An Act Relative to the Centerville-Osterville Marstons Mills Fire District

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3997.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Revenue — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-11-01** Reported from the committee on Revenue
- **2017-11-01** New draft of H3971
- **2017-11-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-01** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-01** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-11-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-11-06** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-11-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-11-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-11-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 113 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7cc3ce96-12c1-4718-bbfe-29645fae1ae1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).